Comments on: Yassky Urges Officials to Consider Middle School Sites Other than Dock Street

By: No2Walentas2Trees

No2Walentas2Trees — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:52:24 +0000

Hey you people….TT is offering more than a ruined view of the BB and shell for a school. They are offering a Magic Tower that will produce jobs long after it’s built. People will come from near and far to the Magic Tower. Beans will be the new currency. Have no fear! The Magic Tower is the only way out of the recession!

By: Mickey

Mickey — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:21:40 +0000

What Two Trees (TT) is offering is tantamount to blackmail for politicians and people like fezziwig who don’t see the big picture. The only reason TT made the offer is to get around neighborhood opposition to the height of their structure. They could care less about the school and would likely withdraw the offer once the first lease expired. What needs to be looked at is what is best for the children and the neighborhood … and that necessitates looking at alternative sites and weighing options. This is a Trojan Horse that TT is offering to the SCA, not a kind-hearted gift.

By: No One Of Consequence

No One Of Consequence — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:55:45 +0000

I’m pretty sure all that TT is offering is raw space; i.e. no lights, wallboard, flooring, wiring, nor basketball hoops.

By: nabeguy

nabeguy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:01:09 +0000

Hey fuzzymath..oops I mean fezziwig. Where are you coming up with your numbers? Given AIG’s status, do you really think they’re in a strong negotiating position? This could be a slam dunk, fireproofing notwithstanding. You’re offering the same dumb “box-what-box?” arguments.

By: Publius

Publius — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:05:28 +0000

Is that you Jed?

By: fezziwig

fezziwig — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:00:06 +0000

oh my gosh, was Yassky born without a brain or did he leave it in a cab? Alternate sites? In other words, find another developer who is a building a new building and leaving room for a school so all the SCA has to do is put in basketball hoops and furniture?
No, some think that a good alternative would be for the SCA to latch on to a failed luxury condo developemnt in deep financial trouble, like 20 Henry Street, and just buy out the owner and AIG and use the non-fireproof structure as a funky school and pay about twenty times more than they have to and thereby make the old demented geezers in brooklyn heights like Publius happy for about two minutes before their next intestinal gas attack.

By: nabeguy

nabeguy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:06:15 +0000

I agree with you Publius, as I made the same proposal regarding 20 Henry St many months ago. Unfortunately, the suggestion was met by derision by folks who couldn’t look past the surface, instead referring to the building as a rat-infested fire-trap. Yeah, one that was about to be converted into million dollar apartments before the bottom dropped out. Now is the perfect time to re-consider this site as a possible alternative for a middle-school…that is if we can get the SCA members to overcome their child-like fascination with all things shiny and new and see the financial advantages that this site holds.

By: Publius

Publius — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:37:43 +0000

Indeed! Now that we learned today via the Brownstoner piece that 20 Henry likely isn’t going to be happening anytime soon, the SCA should show that it’s not in corrupt league with Two Trees and, intead, work with AIG to convert 20 Henry into a real middle school–much larger than the paltry 9 classrooms proposed by Two Trees.

It’s an existing building, renovation has already been in progress and would just need to be reconfigured for a school. It’s perfect.

Perhaps AIG might be able to use some of our bailout money to hire their own lobbyists to make smokey backroom deals with the SCA?